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Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective

Pearce, Sioned ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6906-1096 and Narayan, Nivedita 2025. Cross-jurisdictional youth employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England: a street-level perspective. Journal of Social Policy 10.1017/S0047279425000182

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Abstract

Here we examine interactions between centralised and devolved employment policy and welfare in Scotland, Wales and England, taking a qualitative approach to gain a street-level perspective. This paper’s twin aims are to challenge the privileging of methodological nationalism in the study of welfare regimes and to offer a substate alternative through a street-level perspective. In the context of prevailing trends towards activation measures and mixed economies of welfare across Western Europe, the UK’s work first approach and categorisation as a Liberal welfare regime of minimal provision is complexified using a devolved policy context. Our findings on cross-jurisdictional interactions show devolved employment programmes in Scotland and Wales actively reshaping welfare delivery in ways that resist the UK’s historically centralised approach. We contribute to a growing body of literature on substate welfare regimes with significant implications for the privileging of methodological nationalism in the study of work and welfare.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Published Online
Status: In Press
Schools: Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0047-2794
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 13 February 2025
Date of Acceptance: 2 January 2025
Last Modified: 26 Jun 2025 14:04
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176157

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